An ongoing feud between a Long Island man and his neighbor reached a boiling point last month when the latter phoned the police to complain that the former was laughing too loudly.

"I didn't know it was a crime to laugh out a window," said Long Island resident Robert Schiavelli, 42, after receiving two tickets for "disturbing the peace," each of which carries a penalty of $250 or 15 days in jail.

Schiavelli, who lives with his mother due to neurological problems and frequent seizures, says his next-door neighbor Daniel O'Hanian regularly taunts him over his disability, and he uses laughter as a way to fight back.